For The First Time (or the last time)

BOO! Bobby "Boris" Pickett , whose Boris Karloff impression propelled his Halloween anthem Monster Mash to the top of the charts ...

If it weren't for severe motion sickness, Dr. Ashley Stroupe might already have several space shuttle flights under her belt. The child ...

It's official: the Curse of the Bambino is now over. The Curse of the Bambino was a superstition cited, often jokingly, as a reason for...

It sounds like a fast-food grudge match, or selling ice to the Eskimos: Taco Bell is taking on the homeland of its namesake by reopening in ...

The cellular population exceeded half of the number of men, women and children living in the United States for the first time at the end of...

With the "Great Fire of 2007" now in its 27th year, 84-year-old Andrew "The Last Californian" Goldberg has packed up his...

Microsoft dropped a nearly decade-long legal battle with European regulators Monday, agreeing to key parts of an antitrust ruling that has a...

Sales of laptop computers in stores in the United States outpaced those of desktop computers for the first time in 2003, according to resear...

According to the World Association of Newspapers, Johann Carolus (1575 - 1634) was the publisher of the first newspaper, called Relation all...

The Tonight Show is NBC's long-running late-night talk and variety show, now in its 52nd season. It's the second longest-running en...

Today, the telephone is just another consumer electronics product. It's not much different from a television or a PC or stereo system. Y...

The nation's "first" baby boomer, a retired teacher from New Jersey, applied for Social Security retirement benefits Monday, s...

The raw material for petroleum jelly (also known as petrolatum or soft paraffin) was discovered in 1859 in Titusville, Pennsylvania where it...

When the US government took control of Indians’ property rights in 1887, they were assured they would receive all the income from their land...

The denominations of US currency in production are $1, $2, $5, $10, $20, $50 and $100. The largest denomination ever printed by the Bureau o...

XM Satellite Radio entered the motorcycle market with Harley-Davidson’s 2006 Screamin’ Eagle Ultra Classic Electra Glide (FLHTCUSE model), t...

Kimberly, Clark and Co. was founded in 1872 by John A. Kimberly, Havilah Babcock, Charles B. Clark, and Frank C. Shattuck in Neenah, Wiscons...

Sir Timothy John Berners-Lee is one of the inventers of the World Wide Web, and created the first Website. Tim Berners-Lee was born in Londo...

Pensions, originally thought of as charity, are now viewed as an essential part of the social responsibility of employers or of the governme...

The American Postal Workers Union is the world's largest postal union, representing approximately 330,000 employees of the US Postal Ser...